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One of my engineering professors still has a Web 1.0 site, "best viewed in Netscape Communicator 4.0 or higher at 16 or 24-bit color". It's actively updated, but hasn't fundamentally changed since the late 90s - some pages still have the Netscape Composer generator tags in them. (For further frame of reference: I last had a reason to go to it over ten years ago now, but still bring it up as a talking piece.

https://people.rit.edu/meseec/



Those flares guarding the table layout image links.


This made me nostalgic. There was something special about those days. Also, I haven’t seen the HTML Writers Guild logo for a long time.


Dr Shaaban was my advisor for my MS, a little over 10 years ago! We probably overlapped there...

Lots of great sites among the RIT profs.


It's like how the web was originally meant to be used. Your own little corner of self expression and memories


"WHAT YEAR IS THIS!?"




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